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4 stories taggedlateral-movement.
The Security Metric That Lies: Why Knowing Your Vulnerabilities Is Not the Same as Reducing Your Risk
Security teams are drowning in vulnerability reports yet still cannot answer the one question that matters: are we actually harder to attack today than we were last year? A growing number of experts say the old way of measuring risk is the problem.
Eight in Ten Corporate Servers Can Be Reached From Anywhere Inside the Same Network
A study of 54 trillion real-world network events found that most enterprise servers are wide open once an attacker gets past the front door, and many organisations have no clear idea how bad the exposure is.
The Gentlemen Ransomware Gang Turns Your Own IT Tools Against You
A fast-spreading criminal group is using the software your IT team trusts every day to take over company networks. The real test is not whether they got in. It is what happens next.
Gentlemen Ransomware Spreads Before It Encrypts — That's the Whole Point
Microsoft's analysis of the Go-based Gentlemen encryptor shows why lateral movement, not file-locking, is now the primary design goal of serious ransomware operations.